Annet Dekker

Bio

Annet Dekker is an independent curator and researcher. Subjects of interest are the influence of art on technology, science and popular culture, and vice versa. Currently she is tutor at Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam. Previously she worked as webcurator for SKOR (Foundation for Art and Public Domain), was programme manager at Virtueel Platform, and head of exhibitions, education and artist in residence at the Netherlands Media Art Institute. In 2009 she initiated aaaan.net with Annette Wolfsberger. They organised the Artist in Residence programme at the Netherlands Media Art Institute in Amsterdam and produced Funware, an international touring exhibition in 2010 and 2011 about fun in software (curated by Olga Goriunova). Since 2008 she is writing a PhD on strategies for documenting net art at the Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths University, London, under supervision of Matthew Fuller.

Articles/Reviews/Interviews

Annet Decker interviews Jonas Lund whose practice revolves around the mechanisms that constitute contemporary art production, its market & the established 'art worlds'. Using a wide variety of media, combining software-based works with performance, installation, video, photography & sculptures, he produces works that have an underlying foundation in writing code.

Annet Dekker interviews Foundland, Ghalia Elsrakbi (SY) and Lauren Alexander (SA). A multi-disciplinary art and design practice based in Amsterdam. With backgrounds in graphic design, art and writing Foundland’s approach focuses on research based, critical responses to current issues. While moving around in advertising, printed matter, the Internet, and off line art spaces they dig up interesting stories about Disney, SpongeBob and defected soldiers.

Annet Dekker interviews graphic designer Femke Herregraven about her latest online game Taxodus, a game about offshore tax avoidance. Taxodus is an accessible way to discover how you can avoid paying taxes, and if you can’t get away with it completely, how you can make sure you pay the lowest possible amount. "My primary intention, says Femke, is to make these flows of money visible and question them, because once it’s out in the open people can decide for themselves if this is our idea of a sustainable economy."

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